Grand Designs - New Series
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TV guide said:
Natasha Cargill wants to build a home shaped like two enormous periscopes in rural Norfolk, but to obtain planning permission, she has to ensure not only that the materials are sustainable, but also agree to measure the transportation used to deliver them. If these strict criteria are not met, she won't be allowed to live there, and to add to the pressure, she has just £330,000 to spend on construction, six months to complete the project and Lothario Kevin McCloud attempting to kick her back doors in.
Sounds good tonight!
Have to say the restrictions from the planners sound f
king ridiculous. How on earth can they state 'you can start building but you won't be able to live in it unless...'? wkers. There's a reason why the vast majority of homes across the country are identikit red brick McWimpey monstrosities.
Round all the over important w
kers up against the wall, and put in place a system where innovation, good design and good living are prioritised. Tossers.
Evoluzione said:
TV guide said:
Natasha Cargill wants to build a home shaped like two enormous periscopes in rural Norfolk, but to obtain planning permission, she has to ensure not only that the materials are sustainable, but also agree to measure the transportation used to deliver them. If these strict criteria are not met, she won't be allowed to live there, and to add to the pressure, she has just £330,000 to spend on construction, six months to complete the project and Lothario Kevin McCloud attempting to kick her back doors in.
Sounds good tonight!
Although we won't know until tonight, I would guess the planners only gave permission because of certain promises from the applicant.
People often say anything to get their permission and then conveniently forget so the planners need to make permission conditional.
Of course, they can also be meddling, small minded aholes 
Will be interesting to see which one it is tonight.
People often say anything to get their permission and then conveniently forget so the planners need to make permission conditional.
Of course, they can also be meddling, small minded a
holes Will be interesting to see which one it is tonight.
garyhun said:
Although we won't know until tonight, I would guess the planners only gave permission because of certain promises from the applicant.
People often say anything to get their permission and then conveniently forget so the planners need to make permission conditional.
Of course, they can also be meddling, small minded aholes
Will be interesting to see which one it is tonight.
The amount of planning applications i've read were the person has attempted to do the application themselves and made a right arse of things.People often say anything to get their permission and then conveniently forget so the planners need to make permission conditional.
Of course, they can also be meddling, small minded a
holes Will be interesting to see which one it is tonight.
One example was a piece of land near a nature reserve and meadow with wild flowers and other delightful flora and fauna which was bought without permission but with the intention of building a mansion on.
Part of the planning actually contained the sentence. " Currently the site is a wasteland covered in weeds, building a structure of such unique grandeur would not only improve but enhance the landscape"
Nobody seemed to mention that the wasteland was a meadow and he had as much chance of getting permission to build on it as I have going to Mars.
FourWheelDrift said:
Why not have one long glass side on the 1st floor instead of two smaller bits? The wings lose a lot of the impact of the views, like wearing blinkers.
I think the house would look worse like that, rather giving it the look of a plush office and losing the charismatic magnet/horseshoe-like shaping that it has in the plans. You'd also lose some of the separation element, the sitting/music room being about calm and culture and feeling far enough away from all that kitchen-diner racket despite the relatively compact footprint. I've high hopes for this place.
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